MARCH 1ST 2001

ON CAMPUS

Prof. Ruth Ben-Israel of the TAU Buchmann Faculty of Law was announced as the winner of the Israel Prize in Jurisprudence for the year 2001 to be awarded on Independence Day.

The TAU Senate approved the establishment of a new Graduate Program in Material Sciences and Engineering at the Fleischman Faculty of Engineering and the Raymond and Raymond and Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences. Director of the new program is Prof. Emanuel Peled of the School of Chemistry.

CONFERENCES

"The Scenic Eye - Visual Arts and the Theater" is the title of an exhibition of the Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, the Department of Theater Arts, and the Yolanda and David Katz Faculty of the Arts, sponsored by the Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations, Stuttgart (ifa), in cooperation with the Goethe Institute, Tel Aviv. Greetings at the opening ceremony were delivered by Gallery curator Prof. Mordechai Omer; Prof. Shimon Levy, Chairman of the Department of Theater Arts; Prof. Miriam Guretzki, Head of the Stage Design Program; and Michael Lapuks, artist technician of ifa. A conference was held in connection with the exhibition organized by Dr. Gad Keinar, Head of the Stage, Writing and Drama Program; Prof. Mordechai Omer; and Prof. Miriam Guretzki.

"The 2001 Elections: Conclusions and Soul Searching" was the title of the fourth meeting on governance and society issues in the shadow of the recent elections for Prime Minister. The meeting was held by the School of Government and Policy, and the first panel on the Elections Results and the Future was moderated by Prof. Zeev Maoz, Head of the School of Government and Policy. The second panel on "Future Directions in Israeli Politics" was moderated by Prof. Zeev Segal of the Public Policy Program and the School, with the participation of Minister Haim Ramon; Yosef (Tomi) Lapid, MK; Ahmed Tibi, MK; Shaoul Yahalom, MK; Meir Shitrit, MK and Ha'aretz reporter Tzvi Barel.

The Mendel Kaplan Chair in the History of Egypt and Israel sponsored a conference entitled "The Meeting of the Crusaders and the Moslems in the Land of Israel as Seen at the Sites of Arsuf and Sidna Ali," organized by Prof. Shimon Shamir, incumbent of the Chair. Opening remarks were delivered by Rector Nili Cohen and Mayor of Herzliya Yael German. The city of Herzliya is sponsoring excavations by a TAU delegation in Arsuf (Apolonia) directed by Prof. Israel Roll of the Department of Classics.

TAU's High Tech Management School (HTMS) held its first forum on "Global Choices in Incorporating High Tech Companies: A Study of the Delaware Case." Prof. Charles Elson, Director of the Center for Corporate Governance, University of Delaware, discussed "the Delaware Perspective," and Jonathan Feuchtwanger, Partner at Naschitz, Brandes & Co., discussed the "Israeli Perspective." The lectures were moderated by Head of the School Prof. Gad Ariav. A panel entitled "How and Why it Matters" was moderated by Prof. Michael Ginzberg, Dean of the College of Business and Economics, University of Delaware, with the participation of Prof. Elson, Mr. Feuchtwanger, Dr. David Gilo of TAU and Mr. Didi Arzi, Chairman of HTMS. The HTMS Forum was established by the TAU Faculty of Management - Leon Recanati Graduate School of Business Administration and the Sacta-Rashi Foundation.

The International Forum hosted the Ambassador of Britain R. Francis Cornish, CMG, who spoke on "New Foreign Policy Directions in the New Millennium." The Forum is a joint program of the English Speaking Friends and the Department of Political Science.

Prof. Leo Leiderman of the Eitan Berglas School of Economics and Senior Manager of the Deutsche Bank delivered the keynote lecture entitled "Is Globalization A Desirable Process?" at a memorial lecture for Advocate Yair Elhanani, "organized by the Buchmann Faculty of Law and the TAU Israeli Friends, and moderated by Prof. Moti Sokolov of the Fleischman Faculty of Engineering. Dean of Law Menachem Mautner delivered an address.

APPOINTMENTS AND AWARDS

Dr. Yehudit Ronen of the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies was awarded the AKUM Prize 2001 - the Ashman Prize for literature, for her book Visky Shel Harubim (Carob Whisky) which won the Yad Vashem Prize last summer.

The TAU Senate approved the appointment of Prof. Alisa Meyuhas-Ginio as incumbent of the Chair in the History and Culture of the Jews of Salonika and Greece.
The TAU Senate approved the establishment of three new chairs:

• The Raymond and Beverly Sackler Career Development Chair - for the advancement of young academic staff.
   
• A new chair in Family Law and Jurisdiction at the Buchmann Faculty of Law. Incumbent of the chair is Prof. Menashe Shava.
   
• The David and Inez Myers Chair for Cancer Genetics. Incumbent of the chair is Prof. Yossi Shiloh of the Sackler Faculty of Medicine.

ABROAD

The TAU Chaim Weizmann Zionist Research Institute; the Jacob and Libby Goodman Institute for the Study of Zionism and Israel at Brandeis University; the Institute on American Jewish-Israeli Relations of the American Jewish Committee; and the Zalman Shazar Center for Jewish History, Jerusalem, held a symposium entitled "Israeli Historical Revisionism From Left to Right" at the Center for Jewish History, New York. Greetings at the opening session, which was chaired by TAU's Prof. Anita Shapira, were delivered by TAU President Itamar Rabinovich; Brandeis University President Jehuda Reinharz; and Chairman of the American Jewish Committee, Peter Rosenblatt. Keynote speakers were Michael Walzer of Princeton University's Institute for Advanced Studies, and Prof. Shlomo Avineri of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

"Israeli-Arab Relations - Between Conflict and Reconciliation" was the title of a lecture delivered by TAU President Itamar Rabinovich in Munich and Berlin. The event in Munich was held at the Maximilian University, and was hosted by the Chairman of the Munich Friends Committee Prof. Andreas Heldrich. In Berlin the event was held in the Centrun Judaicum, and was organized by the Berlin Committee of the German Friends and the Board of the Jewish Community in Berlin. President Rabinovich was accompanied by Vice President Yehiel Ben Zvi on his visit to the Germany.

A dinner benefiting scientific projects at TAU was held at the Senate Meeting Hall of the City of Vienna, hosted by President of the Austrian Friends Dr. (hon). Hella Gertner. Dr. Moshe Zuckerman, Head of TAU's Institute for German History, delivered a lecture entitled "Israeli Society at the Dawn of the New Century: Conflict and Consensus," and Prof. Burkhard Jansen of the University of Vienna spoke on "Corrective Gene Therapy for Cancer."

COMING EVENTS

The 2001 Annual Meeting of the BOG will take place from 11-18 May, 2001.